{"id":492,"date":"2014-10-25T15:22:44","date_gmt":"2014-10-26T00:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=492"},"modified":"2014-10-25T15:25:10","modified_gmt":"2014-10-26T00:25:10","slug":"oct-25-cumberland-remember-lives-lost","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/?p=492","title":{"rendered":"Oct. 25 – Cumberland Remembers Lives Lost"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Thursday, October 23, 2014 was a sad day for south Cumberland as a house fire that started in the early morning hours claimed the lives of two young girls: Halaina Smith age 3, and Emily Edwards age 7.\u00a0 No parent wants to lose any child they love to fire, but to lose two in the same fire at such young ages is a painful experience that I don\u2019t have words to describe.<\/p>\n

Tonight, Saturday, October 25, 2014 our community came together at 7 PM at the scene of the fire for a Candlelight Vigil.\u00a0 The picture you see is the house where the fire took place as it was decorated with battery operated candles and tokens of remembrance for the two young girls.\u00a0 You are able to see some of the participants holding candles.\u00a0 This picture does not do justice to size of the assembled crowd.\u00a0 Without counting I would say at least 100 people gathered.\u00a0 The mother of the two girls was there and we were able to talk for a few moments following and exchange hugs.\u00a0 She thanked me for all of the staff at the hospital who care for her and her family as they were being treated following their removal from the burning home.<\/p>\n

The vigil tonight reminded me of this Bible verse:<\/p>\n

The light keeps shining in the dark, and darkness has never put it out<\/strong>. John 1.5<\/p>\n

Each of the girls Halaina and Emily had the light of God in them throughout their lives.\u00a0 Now that they are no longer on earth, the light of God is in them now more powerfully than it was when they were on earth.\u00a0 The scene of those gathered on the sidewalk and in the street with the candlelight reflecting in their faces was a sign of the goodness in our world that is represented in light.\u00a0 My prayer is that the light of both Halaina and Emily shines brightly in the Heavenly realm until we are all able to see it.\u00a0 I will continue to pray for the family survivors who are still trying to pick up the pieces of their lives and move forward.<\/p>\n

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Thursday, October 23, 2014 was a sad day for south Cumberland as a house fire that started in the early morning hours claimed the lives of two young girls: Halaina Smith age 3, and Emily Edwards age 7.\u00a0 No parent wants to lose any child they love to fire, but to lose two in the … Continue reading Oct. 25 – Cumberland Remembers Lives Lost<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=492"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":497,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/492\/revisions\/497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms.shelquist.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}